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This HCIPy release provides further speed improvements for Fourier
transforms, among some other minor improvements and bugfixes. See the
list of all changes below for a summary. This release can now also be
installed with Conda. We dropped support for Python 3.6. This version
supports Python 3.7+.
List of major changes
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* Further speed improvements using NumExpr and in-place operations ([ehpor](https://github.com/ehpor)).
* Autodetect FFTs when doing general Fourier transforms ([ehpor](https://github.com/ehpor))
* Renamed some of the aperture functions to be more uniform ([ehpor](https://github.com/ehpor))
* Added file IO for Field, Grid and ModeBasis ([ehpor](https://github.com/ehpor))
* Allow the use of 32bit floating point Wavefronts ([ehpor](https://github.com/ehpor))
* Added the LUVOIR-B, GMT, TMT, ELT, Hale, HabEx, Hubble and JWST telescope apertures ([ivalaginja](https://github.com/ivalaginja), [syhaffert](https://github.com/syhaffert) & [ehpor](https://github.com/ehpor))
* Improved the speed of spiders and segmented apertures by 4x ([ehpor](https://github.com/ehpor))
* Knife edge coronagraph now works in all four directions ([syhaffert](https://github.com/syhaffert) & [ehpor](https://github.com/ehpor)))
* Improved support for animations ([ehpor](https://github.com/ehpor))
* Added focal-length parameter to Lyot coronagraph ([syhaffert](https://github.com/syhaffert))
* Added a telescope pupil introductory tutorial ([ehpor](https://github.com/ehpor))
* Allow step-index fibers to be put at arbitrary positions ([syhaffert](https://github.com/syhaffert))
* Fixed the PyWFS tutorial ([syhaffert](https://github.com/syhaffert))
* Added CaF2 to the materials ([syhaffert](https://github.com/syhaffert))
* Fixed deprecation warnings for Numpy 1.20 ([ehpor](https://github.com/ehpor))
* Added release for Conda ([ehpor](https://github.com/ehpor))
* Reading specific extensions of Fits files ([syhaffert](https://github.com/syhaffert))
* CI and linting automation maintenance and upgrades ([ehpor](https://github.com/ehpor))
* Added support for Python 3.10 and removed support for Python 3.6 ([ehpor](https://github.com/ehpor))
* Added conda-forge installation ([ehpor](https://github.com/ehpor))